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The Background is Oil
by
Dale Allen
Pfeiffer
[For many it is difficult to
accept the truth about the events of September 11th without seeing the
context of an unavoidable global crisis that cannot be postponed or
evaded. The myth of perpetual American prosperity is destroyed by this
layman-friendly analysis of the global oil picture and the hard choices
facing the planet. Enron employees are only adding to a list of innocent
American victims that is going to increase rapidly. There are solutions,
however, that do not necessitate support for the global dictatorship that
is rapidly falling upon us all. Many thanks to Dale Allen Pfeiffer for
this cogent and ominous analysis. – MCR]
FTW, December 18, 2001 -- The
past year has seen events unprecedented in the history of this country,
from the installment of George W. Bush as president due to an extremely
controversial 5 to 4 decision of the Supreme Court to the horrific
terrorist attacks of 9-11. These events seem unreal and beyond
comprehension. Many people have been left wondering why the presidential
coup and why the terrorist attacks.
Many people have assumed that
the last presidential election simply resulted in a political squabble due
to the close vote. A few have opined that this squabble resulted in a
power grab by one segment of the elite in this country. As for the events
of 9-11, the established line is that this was due to evil people who hate
freedom and democracy. However, many people have sought to explain that
these terrorists were bred by decades of imperialist intervention
undertaken by this country in order to keep secure the privileged position
of US corporations and the US public in general. There are a small few who
have wondered whether the events of 9-11 were the work of Islamic
terrorists at all, just as there are a few who believe that the Bush
regime staged a coup in every sense of the word. The wisest and best
informed say all of this is about oil.
To understand the events of the
past year, it is first necessary to set the scene. And the scene in which
all of these events have played out is the approaching end of the oil age.
This background has not been talked about in the mass media, or even in
the alternative media. However, this knowledge is essential in order to
understand not only what has transpired in the past year, but also the
events to come. And we need this knowledge in order to consider what
actions we should take to assure a positive future for all.
Oil Dependency
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The civilization we live in today is based entirely on hydrocarbons (by
which term I mean both oil and natural gas). The energy which runs our
technology is derived from hydrocarbons. The energy which does our work is
derived from hydrocarbons. The energy which powers our homes, our
transportation and which generates our electricity is all largely derived
from hydrocarbons. All of the plastics which surround us with consumer
goods are derived from hydrocarbons. Our produce is fed with
hydrocarbon-based fertilizers and sprayed with hydrocarbon-based
pesticides. Every person in the US has the energy equivalent of a dozen
slaves working for him or her.
Why this dependency on oil?
Simply put, there is no other energy source which holds as much energy per
unit. The only exception to this is uranium, which is dangerous, difficult
to work with, and far too rare an element to ever provide for more than a
small percentage of our energy needs. 1 Even the
highest grade of coal only holds about 50% as much energy as an equivalent
quantity of hydrocarbons. 2 Renewable
energy resources can provide nowhere near enough energy to meet our
current needs.3
Fusion remains, as ever, just beyond our grasp. The highly touted hydrogen
fuel cells are not an energy source but a form of energy storage; the
energy contained in the fuel cell must be generated from another source. 4
In short, there is no other
source which can provide for the energy needs of our present civilization.
Nonrenewable Resources
Hydrocarbons are considered a
nonrenewable resource. Many millions of years ago, atmospheric carbon was
absorbed by ocean waters and ultimately processed into living matter.
Millions of years ago the oceans abounded in microorganisms. Life forms
similar to plankton were far more abundant than they are even at the
present time. As these organisms died their bodies settled on the ocean
floor, forming an organic ooze. It is interesting to note that the planet
was incapable of supporting terrestrial life until much of the carbon had
been leeched from the atmosphere. Atmospheric carbon is a poison which had
to be locked into sediment by ocean life before land-dwelling life forms
could evolve.
Once this organic ooze was
deposited, it had to be buried in sediment and subjected to just the right
combination of conditions in order to transform it into energy rich
hydrocarbons. The combination of pressure, heat and time is very precise.
Too much pressure will transform the carbon to graphite. Too much heat
will overcook it.
Finally, once the ooze has been
transformed into hydrocarbons, they will migrate through the Earth’s
crust until captured by the ?trap.? A trap is a non-permeable geological
formation which holds the hydrocarbons and prevents them from escaping.
Without a trap, the hydrocarbons will migrate to the Earth’s surface and
dissipate into the atmosphere.
All of the conditions for
hydrocarbon generation have only been met once in the history of the
Earth. It is arguable that the process of transforming atmospheric carbon
into hydrocarbon deposits itself altered atmospheric, oceanic and earth
chemistry, as well as the biosphere, in such a way that the process will
never be repeated, it would take millions of years for hydrocarbon
deposits to be replenished.
And so hydrocarbons are a
nonrenewable resource which we are using up at an alarming rate.
Production & Demand
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The production of oil from any
given field follows a bell curve. After discovery of the field, production
increases as more and more wells are opened. A team of exploration
geologists and engineers will quickly map out the field and develop a
pattern of well placement so as to maximize production. Each well has a
cone of production which, when well placed, will cover the entire field.
If placed too closely, the cones of production will overlap and the
overlapping wells will each wind up producing less. So, to increase
production by drilling more wells only works until the field is covered,
beyond which point adding more wells only leads to diminishing returns.
Because of this, there is a
point where the production of any particular field is maximized. This is
the peak of the production curve. The peak can be narrow or broad, short
or long in duration, but production will never be increased beyond this
point.
In the earth, oil moves at a
very slow rate. The classic gusher effect is due to the fact that oil at
depth is held under pressure. When a hole is drilled, the oil in the area
immediately around the hole is ejected by this pressure. Once this oil has
been pumped, the well must draw oil from farther away. Under its own
impetus, oil travels at a very slow rate, the same rate as damp spreading
through a stone foundation. Once a well has pumped all of the oil in its
immediate vicinity, the rate of production must drop. We have techniques
for boosting the draw of a well, such as pumping in water under pressure
at other sites to drive oil to the well. But production will inevitably
decrease.
This is the downward side of
the production curve. On this downward slope more and more energy is
required to pump oil from a field, until a point is reached where it takes
as much or more energy to pump the oil than can be extracted from the oil.
At this point the wells are closed and the field ceases production,
forever.
This is the trend for every oil
field ever discovered: increasing production, peak production, and
declining production. Even fields as immense as those in Saudi Arabia
follow this pattern.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Dr.
King Hubbert managed to combine production from several different wells to
develop production profiles for regions, nations, and even the entire
planet. These regional oil production plots also have the form of a bell
curve, known now as the Hubbert curve. Such curves can be used to predict
peak production and decline, both nationally and globally. Using this
technique, Dr. Hubbert was able to surmise that US oil production would
peak in the early 1970s and then fall into decline. Dr. Hubbert was
ridiculed by other scientists who relied on differing, erroneous
methodologies. 5
US oil production did peak in
the early 1970s. To meet its rising energy needs after this point the US
became increasingly dependent on foreign oil. This paved the way for the
Arab oil embargo. By the end of the decade, US oil production had begun to
decrease irreversibly. Whatever anyone tries to say to the contrary, our
dependence on foreign oil is permanent and increasing all the time. Dr.
Hubbert was vindicated, and his is now the standard methodology for
projecting oil production.
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Global production curves have
also been in existence since the 1960s. They have been refined as data on
oil resources is revised; yet the timing and length of the peak have
varied little through the years. Global oil production peaked sometime in
this past year and will begin to decline within another five years.
Production will peak at a maximum of 90 million barrels per day; however,
demand stands at 75 million barrels per day currently and will rise by 2.5
% per year to 100 million barrels per day by 2010. 6
This is the composite global
picture. To better understand what is happening, we have to compare
various oil producing regions. In doing this we see that, except for the
Middle East and the Caspian Sea Basin, the rest of the world has already
peaked, and most oil producing regions are now in decline. The Middle East
and Caspian Sea regions are not expected to peak for at least several
years to come. With the passage of time, all countries will vie with each
other for the oil of these regions, vying for the survival of their
civilization. And whoever controls the oil production of the Middle East
and Caspian Sea regions will control the world. 7
More could be said about
natural gas, which is also expected to decline in production in the next
decade.8 , 9
Likewise, the coal resources within the US will be exhausted in
another fifty years at most.10 And coal
alone will never meet our current, much less projected, energy demand. Nor
can salvation be expected from the Athabaskan (Alaskan) oil sands, which
require a major energy investment to harvest and process. 11
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Number of Years to Peak for
Various Nations, 1998
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Against This Backdrop
Now that we have this
background in place, let’s reflect on the events of the past year.
The 2000 presidential election
has been referred to as a coup, and there is good reason for this. Never
mind the widespread corruption and voter fraud. Never mind the
disenfranchisement of black voters and the outright destruction of
untallied ballots in minority voting precincts. Never mind the
manipulations of James Baker, Governor Jeb Bush and various other Florida
officials. The Supreme Court decision was itself unheard of, and probably
unconstitutional. The self-described job of the Supreme Court is to decide
questions of constitutional law and set precedents. Yet in this one case
and no other in the history of the US the Supreme Court stated that it was
rendering a special decision which cannot be used as a precedent in any
other case.12
So we have a president put into
office by a 5 to 4 vote of the Supreme Court, in direct opposition to the
popular vote. What about the background of this president and his cabinet?
The Bush cabinet is a virtual who’s who of oil, defense and
pharmaceutical bigwigs. 13 The Bush
family is itself closely tied financially to the bin Ladens.14 , 15 Both families
are involved in the Carlyle Group. 16 Bush Sr.
sits on the board of Carlyle, a 12 billion Equity company with oil
holdings and defense contracts. 17 Dick Cheney
was the former CEO of Halliburton Oil. Colin Powell is a major stockholder
in several defense contractors. National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice
sat on the board of Chevron. Andrew Card, the Chief of Staff is from
General Motors. Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, was CEO of Searle
Pharmaceuticals. Dick Armitage, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, has ties
to the Russian mafia and is a board member of Carlyle. Robert Jordan, the
Saudi ambassador, was a member of Baker Botts, a legal firm specializing
in oil and defense (the Baker in Baker Botts is James Baker). Tony
Principi, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, comes from Lockheed Martin. Gordan
England, Secretary of the Navy, is tied to General Dynamics. James Roche,
Secretary of the Air Force, is from Northrop Grumman. Gen. Thomas White,
retired, Secretary of the Army, is from Enron Energy. Donald Evans, the
Commerce Secretary, owns Colorado Oil Company. National Security Advisor
Condoleezza Rice sat on the board of Exxon. And Mr. Carlucci, the Chief of
Carlyle, sits on the Middle East Policy Council. 18
One of the first acts of the
Bush administration was to declare an energy crisis and delineate a
controversial set of measures for solving this problem. On the surface,
the Bush energy package called for increased domestic production. This is
the favored solution of certain mainstream, free-market economists, who
believe that increased production is the answer to current energy woes
while research and development of new technology will take care of the
future. Most mainstream economists refuse to realize that hydrocarbons are
the underpinning of our technological civilization, instead of just
another commodity. And, of course, increasing production has great appeal
to businesspeople whose prime concern is maximizing short-term profit.
Under the surface, however, the
Bush energy package is a give away for the oil industry, and a
strengthening of US commitment to support corporate oil interests. The
energy package sought to give away drilling rights in the Alaskan National
Wildlife Arctic Reserve (ANWAR) and other remaining wilderness areas, open
up our continental shelves to full exploitation, role back environmental
and health regulations, and subsidize the oil industry with major tax
breaks. One controversial measure which received very little attention was
an item allowing energy corporations to extract resources from public land
without paying for the right to do so. The Bush energy plan was a giveaway
for energy corporations. It met with stiff opposition in congress and
certain prized measures such as drilling in ANWAR were defeated. Related
to the energy package was President Bush's withdrawal from the Kyoto
Treaty on global warming, which action was reviled around the world.
In his first months in office,
Bush managed to alienate almost every country on the planet in one
arrogant move after another. When asked what he would do should Canada
seek to limit natural gas flow to the United States, Bush said he would do
whatever was necessary to protect our right to Canada’s natural gas.
Likewise, at home, he was highly reviled by many US citizens. There was
even some talk of impeachment. All of this changed after 9-11, and it is
to be wondered how the Bush administration would have survived without the
terrorist attacks.
911
It is now early summer of 2001,
and the Bush administration informs Pakistan and India that it will launch
a military mission against Afghanistan before the end of October.19 , 20 This is the
same Afghanistan to which the US gave 43 million dollars just a couple
months before to aid them in destroying their poppy crops; that on top of
132 million given to the Taliban in the previous year. 21 , 22 At the time
Secretary of State Colin Powell informs Pakistan and India of US
intentions there is no animosity between the US government and the Taliban,
despite the fact that the Taliban is openly harboring wanted terrorist
Osama bin Laden.
In July, while seeking
treatment for a kidney infection at an American hospital in Dubai, Osama
bin Laden is visited by a CIA operative who later brags about the meeting.23 Shortly after
this meeting came to light in late October, the CIA issued a statement
insisting that it has never had contact with Osama bin Laden. Yet it is
very well known that the CIA originally trained and supported bin Laden
during the Taliban’s fight against Soviet invasion. 24 , 25 , 26
After 9-11 there has been a
great deal of investigation to see who profited from the attack on the
World Trade Center. Investigators have turned up a list of financial
institutions in the US which profited from short-selling and put options
on the WTC, airline companies and the companies housed in the WTC. Short
selling and put options indicate prior knowledge that an asset is about to
lose its value. The list of brokers handling the insider trading connected
to 911 includes A.B. Brown, an investment bank. "Buzzy" Krongard,
the current Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is the
former Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown.27 , 28
In the months prior to the
terrorist attacks, there were many warning passed around various levels of
the government and elsewhere. David Schippers the Republican lawyer who
pressed impeachment against President Clinton, claims he spent months
before 9/11 trying to get information to Attorney General Ashcroft from
FBI agents who claim they were told not to investigate leads that
suggested a terrorist attack on Manhattan was imminent. 29 The New York
Daily News stated that some Middle-Easterners in New York were forewarned
of the attacks.30
Bin Laden had warned a few months previously that he and his followers
would undertake an unprecedented attack on US interests.
31 Finally, on Friday, Sept 7, the State Dept issued a worldwide
terrorist alert to Americans abroad.32 It is hard to
believe that no one in the US intelligence community had knowledge of the
pending attacks.
Between 7:45 and 8:10 EST, the
morning of September 11th, four US passenger jets were hijacked
simultaneously. This was an event unprecedented in US history and should
have set off all sorts of alarms by itself. Nothing was done. The FAA had
all four planes on radar the whole time. 35 minutes later, American
Airlines flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center. The air force was
not scrambled. President Bush was not even informed. After another 18
minutes, United Airlines flight 175 struck the second tower of the WTC.
Bush is briefly informed of these events as he attends a 2nd grade class
in Florida. Instead of taking emergency actions, Bush continues with his
lessons. Another excruciating 37 minutes pass during which nothing is
done. Radar tracks American Airlines flight 77 as it flies by Washington
D.C., makes a tight spiraling descent, descending 7,000 feet in 2.5
minutes, and levels off to fly straight into the Pentagon at 640 knots,
clipping power lines along the way.
Some time later, United
Airlines flight 93 crashes in Pennsylvania. Witnesses report debris
falling from the plane many miles before it hit ground. There has been a
lot of speculation about the intended target of this 4th plane. Some say
the target was Camp David, some the White House. It has also been
speculated that this craft sought a midair collision with Air Force One.
We will probably never know its intended target. However, it is
interesting to consider if the target of flight 93 had actually been the
Capitol Building. Had this jet struck congress, President Bush might have
temporarily assumed the powers of congress.
Subsequent Events
After 9-11, President Bush’s
approval rating rose to 80%. A wave of patriotic hysteria has washed over
the entire country, giving Bush the mandate he so desperately desired.
Instead of seeking out the perpetrators and bringing them to justice
through legal channels, Bush declared war on all terrorists and on any
country which harbors or supports terrorists. This is to be a very long
and open-ended war, without specific goals against which its success and
eventual resolution can be measured. Operation ?Infinite Justice? as it
was originally called. The US public must prepare themselves to suffer and
sacrifice while the war itself will be fought largely in secret.
President Bush quickly
established a new cabinet level Office of Homeland Security, to be headed
by former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge. This office is to stand over
and coordinate among all existing domestic police on national, state and
local levels. And it is to be given its own special security forces with
practically unlimited powers. Among their duties will be monitoring
interstate travel at checkpoints and policing protests. Security forces
will reserve the right to kill anyone who resists them. Bush and Ridge are
pushing for national ID cards, and it is rumored that checkpoints will be
equipped with face recognition technology. 33
In congress, unpopular
legislation which had previously limped along was rammed through with
patriotic fervor. Lobbyists lined up in a feeding frenzy. Where only a
month before budget surpluses had dried up and congress people were
arguing for defense cuts, now practically the entire budget was given over
to defense spending. And finally, congress passed a new anti-terrorism act
which granted police and the military vast new powers, ended habeas corpus
and the posse comitatus act, and severely hamstrung the Bill of Rights. 34 , 35
All the while, the public is
being kept in a state of alert with threats of anthrax exposure and other
vague terrorist alarms. The anthrax attacks are themselves extremely
peculiar. The Bush administration wants to point the blame at Iraq, while
the FBI and other investigators believe them to be the work of homegrown,
probably rightwing, terrorists. Yet all the leads seem to evaporate into
thin air. The main targets, media and Democratic Senator Tom Daschle, make
little sense if the perpetrators are Islamic extremists. Those who would
benefit the most from these attacks are President Bush and his
administration, as the attacks only serve to scare the media and his
political opposition further into his protective arms. Finally there is
the ineffective nature of the attacks; for the most part, the exposures
are easily treated with antibiotics. It would be easier and more effective
to use letter bombs. That is, unless your goal was to instill fear in the
media, the political opposition and the general public without massive
casualties.
Lastly, the assault on
Afghanistan began just as planned. And the US now has the excuse to attack
any other nation it pleases. All that is required is to first label them
as terrorists.
Oil, Again
Just what was the planned
purpose of the assault on Afghanistan? You could say it was a pipe dream.
US oil interests have their eye on large untapped hydrocarbon resources in
the Caspian Sea region. Just as the Bosnian conflict was part of an effort
to secure the Balkan states for an oil and gas pipeline to the European
energy market, so the US is seeking secure passage for a pipeline through
Afghanistan to feed the Asian energy markets and the US itself.36 , 37
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Beyond this, the War on
Terrorism, gives the US a perfect excuse to seize control of major oil
deposits in other countries such as Iran and Colombia. Likewise, it
legitimates a police state within the US so that the elite can prepare for
the day when the common people of this country are impoverished and
starving due to the collapse of oil-based civilization. The Elite will
maintain their own comfort and their average of twelve energy slaves per
person.
Here then, is the scenario.
Wary of the peak and approaching decline of hydrocarbon production, the
oil and defense elite in this country back a political coup to put their
people in the White House. However, this oil administration can do very
little toward achieving their ends because of unpopularity at home and
abroad. In growing desperation, this regime provokes and permits, if not
outright planning the enterprise on its own, a massive terrorist attack
against the US homeland, striking at the very symbols of globalization and
US imperialist military might. Perhaps failing in an attempt to attack
congress which would then give the president the opportunity to
?temporarily? suspend the constitution and assume sole power. This
terrorist act negates all opposition to the regime and gives them the
authority to do whatever they wish internationally and domestically to
protect the interests and the positions of the oil elite.
This scenario may seem
farfetched but no other theory can explain as adequately all the events of
the past year, given the facts that are known and the background of the
approaching end of the oil age.
Even if you don’t believe the
events of the past year were intentional, that does not change the picture
of the future before us. We stand at the dusk of oil-based civilization,
and the US is preparing for the approaching night by extending its
military might throughout the world and instituting a police state at
home.
Ending on a Positive Note
Global oil is peaking; in five
years we will no longer be able to produce enough oil to meet the needs of
our oil civilization. The oil elite wants to grab the remaining supplies
and dictate their use. Likewise, the people of this country, who will soon
be faced by starvation and extreme impoverishment, can be held in check
through the establishment of a police state.
All the while, people are being
diverted from seeing that we have just enough energy resources left that
we could build a true ectopian democracy where all of us could lead freer,
healthier, more fulfilling lives. We need bottom up democracy. We need
small-scale economies, and small-scale technologies powered by renewable
energy. We need smaller communities, structured to be self-sufficient, all
tied together by high speed monorails. We need gardens and parks in our
cities instead of cars. We need social halls, not shopping malls. And we
have enough energy remaining to do this, if we act now.
The oil elites, however, want
to use our remaining energy resources to establish a security state where
they can enjoy the remaining riches while the rest of us suffer, starve
and slave for them.
Yet they are not the ones
pulling the triggers and enforcing the rules. We are. And that’s what
they fear most. So tell me, what do you think we should let happen now?
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ENDNOTES:
1 ENERGY FOR TOMORROW'S WORLD ;
World Energy Council, p. 90, 1993
2 Energy Synopsis, Jay Hanson,
Mar, 8, 2001 --
http://www.dieoff.org
3 Environmental Accounting: Energy
and Environmental Decision Making, Howard T. Odium, Wiley, 1996. From page
314, we find that in 1993 total USA fuel use was 4.78 x 10e24 sej
(increasing about 2% per year ever since). From page 187 we find that
total net solar radiation absorption for Alaska and the lower 48 was 4.48
x 10e22 sej. In other words, the USA is presently using fossil fuels more
than 100 times greater than the total absorption of solar radiation across
the entire USA!
4 ENERGETIC LIMITS TO GROWTH , Jay
Hanson; Energy Magazine, Spring, 1999; http://dieoff.com/page175.htm
5 http://www.hubbertpeak.com/hubbert/
6 Energy Synopsis, Jay Hanson,
Mar, 8, 2001 -- http://www.dieoff.org
7 The Hubbert Peak for World Oil ,
http://www.hubbertpeak.com/summary.htm
8 Energy Synopsis, Jay Hanson,
Mar, 8, 2001 --
http://www.dieoff.org
9 http://dieoff.com/nagas.htm
10 BEYOND OIL, by John Gever et
al., pp. 65-68, Univ. Pr. Colorado, 1991.
11 GeoDestinies, by Walter
Youngquist; National Book Company, 1997.
See http://dieoff.com/page132.htm
12 The Betrayal of America: How
the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President , by
Vincent Bugliosi, Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2001.
13 The Oil behind Bush and Son's Campaigns by Ranjit
Devraj, Inter Press Services, 5 October 2001; Posted at globalresearch.ca
15 October 2001.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/DEV110A.html
14 George W. Bush's Dubious
Friends , Intelligence Newsletter, 2 March 2000; Posted at
globalresearch.ca 1 October 2001.
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/INL110A.html
15 BUSHLADEN by Jared Israel,
Emperor’s Clothes; 8 October 2001.
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bushladen.htm
16 Judicial Watch: Bush/bin Laden
Connection "has now turned into a scandal!", Jared Israel,
Emperor’s Clothes; posted 6 October 2001.
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/jw.htm
17 The Carlyle Group , Alfred
Mendes, Spectrezine.
http://www.spectrezine.org/global/carlyle.htm
18 You’ve got to be Up Front ,
Mike McCormick, transcription of an interview with Stan Goff; October 24,
2001. http://narconews.com/goffmccormick1.html
,
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=3795
19 US Planned Attack on
Afghanistan , George Arney, BBC; 18 September, 2001. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia
/newsid_1550000/1550366.stm
20 India in Anti-Taliban Military
Plan , Indiareacts.com; 26 June, 2001. http://www.indiareacts.com/archivefeatures
/nat2.asp?recno=10&ctg=
21 Bush sends Money to Taliban
while Planning War, TASHKENT, Aug 08, 2001 (Itar-Tass via COMTEX).
22 The Washington Post, 25 May
2001.
23 CIA AGENT ALLEGEDLY MET BIN
LADEN IN JULY, From 'Le Figaro' [1 November 2001], Translated by Tiphaine
Dickson, By Alexandra Richard; Page 2, October 31st, 2001.
http://emperors-clothes.com/misc/lefigaro.htm
24 Washington: Parent of the
Taliban and Colombian Death Squads, by Jared Israel, Emperor’s Clothes;
Posted 5 June 2001.
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/mis.htm
25 "OSAMAGATE", by
Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa; Centre
for Research on Globalisation (CRG), Montreal. Posted at globalresearch.ca
9 October 2001. http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO110A.html
26 GAPING HOLES IN THE 'CIA VS.
BIN LADEN' STORY, by Jared Israel, Emperor’s Clothes; Posted 8 November
2001.
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/probestop-i.htm
27 Suppressed Details of Criminal
Insider Trading lead directly into the CIA’s Highest Ranks, CIA
Executive Director "Buzzy" Krongard managed Firm that handled
"put" Options on UAL , by Michael C. Ruppert , FTW Publications,
9 October 2001. Centre for Research on Globalisation, globalresearch.ca,
20 October 2001. http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RUP110A.html
28 The CIA's Wall Street
connections , Transcript of interview with Michael C. Ruppert. Guns and
Butter, The Economy Watch with Kellia Ramares and Bonnie Faulkner Aired on
KPFA 94.1 FM, Berkeley, CA Friday, October 12, 2001. Centre for Research
on Globalisation (CRG), Montréal, globalresearch.ca 3 November 2001. http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RUP111A.html
29 David Shippers Interview , Alex
Jones Radio Show; October 10, 2001. http://www.infowars.com/transcript_schippers.html
30 Some Got Warning: Don't Go
Downtown on Sept. 11, By GREG B. SMITH, Daily News; 10/12/2001. http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-10-12/News
_and_Views/City_Beat/a-128273.asp
31 Who Did It? U.S. Searches for
Terror Clues; Analysts See Signs of Osama Bin Laden, By David Ruppe, ABC
News, Sept 11, 2001. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews
/wtc_terrorsuspects_010911.html
32 David Ruppe, ibid. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews
/wtc_terrorsuspects_010911.html
33 Citizen, Can I See Your ID , by
Al Martin, Al Martin Raw.
http://www.almartinraw.com/column37.html
34 ATTACK ON THE BILL OF RIGHTS ,
by Marty Jezer, Brattleboro (VT) Reformer; 10/19/01.
35 From the United States of
America to the National Security States of America, by Al Martin, Al
Martin Raw.
http://www.almartinraw.com/column36.html
36 Turkmenistan: China Plans To
Aid Construction Of Iranian Pipeline, By Michael Lelyveld, Radio Free
Europe-Radio Liberty; 17 November 1997. http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/
1997/11/F.RU.971117130313.html
37 Same Investors, Oil Companies
Merge, Poised for War Profits, H. Michael Sweeney, Noilwar.
http://www.proparanoid.com/priorknowledge.htm#merge
[Dale Allen Pfeiffer is a Michigan
structural geologist, activist, and novelist. He can be reached at elizdale0416@earthlink.net]
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